"Every resource we can pull from will be used to determine what happened", Aranda told reporters a couple miles from the crash site. An urgent rescue effort is underway.

At least 5 of the 9 people onboard at military KC-130 have been confirmed dead, Mississippi's Leflore County Sheriff Ricky Bankstold The Greenwood Commonwealth. Although the names of the dead have not yet been released, messages of condolences from officials indicate that, among the 16 bodies recovered, a unit of marines were killed in the MS crash. A few moments later, he made her wildest dreams come true.

The military plane was traveling from Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point in North Carolina. Banks said 4,000 gallons of foam were used to put out the fire.

Local catfish farmer Andy Jones described the force of the crash as almost flattening the plane, which he said could barely be seen above the waist-high bean crop. In his own words, he said, "You looked up and you saw the plane twirling around,"."It was spinning down". The chief estimated that the debris field was about three miles in diameter.

MS outlet the Clarion-Ledger said the plane came down in a soybean field on the Sunflower-Leflore county line, and left a five-mile trail of debris. Following the disaster, a military jet circled overhead, she said.

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Simmons' husband and a group of other men started a human chain, which eventually consisted of 80 people - some in shallow water. Simmons and other rescuers were able to tow each family member to the human chain, who then pulled them all to the shore.